Leaving Omaha

On Stage at the Orpheum

Waiting for a diploma

Lookin' 'round at my classmates,

Ready to disown them.

My bags were packed, I was ready to leave,

For University-

I was moving up and out-

Out of Omaha...

It didn't last

One night I was drinking alone,

So I drove out to Denver

To visit an old friend

Who had settled down there.

I kept on driving all through the night

And threw up at dawn's early light-

Sick on caffeine pills.

My friend, he escaped from Omaha...

I never will.

I had a lover once,

She was a nomad.

I would've followed her anywhere,

So we moved out to Portland.

She was selling baggage-

I bought all I could-

And that was all it took to make my escape.

Oh Omaha,

You never looked so good.

I am leaving.

I'm sailing away.

My time in Iowa was just a holiday.

I've gotta get back over that bridge

To the town were I live-

I guess that's where I'll stay.

Omaha